Credentials, Dan

@dancredentials.bsky.social

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Professional librarian, armchair everything else. Birmingham apologist and cultural ambassador at large. Co-host, co-founder, and co-creatrepreneur of @thrawnderdome.bsky.social

A collection of science fiction and fantasy fiction in IKEA kallax shelves, evidencing only the finest discernment and taste.
Diagram of how a gunner would fit inside the underside ball turret of a B-24 bomber: back curved shading the lower half of the ball, legs high in a sort of gynecological stirrup posture
Movie poster for Mr. Wrong, featuring a close up of Bill Pullman leaning into Ellen Degeneres, who is turned facing the viewer with an expression of open mouthed horror
Vintage paperback editions of The Fall of the Towers by Samuel R. Delany and Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe by Henri Pirenne
Screen capture from the drop down recent searches in a just opened Chrome tab with Google's AI prompt suggestions under a heading "Keep exploring" read "Recommend some great alternative rock albums from the late 1970s" and "How has conglomeration influenced the book review landscape?"
A Breguet 410, a development of the earlier 274 which retained it's lopsided proportions
Screenshot of a post from a Facebook group devoted to interwar French aircraft with photos of the ungainly Breguet 274 reconnaissance and light bomber plane, with Angry reactions among the responses to the post
Screen capture of thumbnail for the music video for “Best Day of My Life” by American Authors
Contemporary flying example of the MS.406, formerly in Swiss service during the war restored with French Armee de l'air 1940 livery, on an exhibition flight through a verdant European valley.
A Morane-Saulnier MS.406 fighter airplane from a front three quarters view, displaying the 20mm cannon mounted between the engine cylinders to fire through the propellor hub and the unique retractable radiator extended from the bottom of the fuselage. A grinning pilot leans out of the cockpit while a more sanguine airman leans casually against a landing gear strut.
Local news facebook post screen capture, in a video post a journalist sits at a conference table with an uncomfortable looking man, the chiron at bottom reads "Thomas Liccione - accused of throwing kittens out of the car" The post itself is captioned "Where are the witnesses?"
A cabinet stuffed with stereo gear, including vintage preamp and equalizer from the 70s
Screen capture from a Wikipedia article. A brightly plumed green bird holds an entire small avocado in her mouth, ready to swallow whole.
Navigator station on a B-17 G bomber, a small wood and steel desk with chair, set amidst ammo crates for the defensive machine guns in the forward "cheek" position. Instrument dials are mounted above the desk surface.
Screenshot of headline: “Rare baby duck-billed dinosaur fossil airlifted from southern Utah”
Screen capture of a facebook page Aviation 24/7 which posts reports of accidents "JetBlue JFK: DRONE STRIKE REPORTED"
“Charles Keeney Hamilton (May 30, 1885 – January 22, 1914) was an American aviator nicknamed the "crazy man of the air".[1][2][3] He was, in the words of the Centennial of Flight Commission, "known for his dangerous dives, spectacular crashes, extensive reconstructive surgeries, and ever present cigarette"[4] and was "frequently drunk".[5] He survived more than 60 crashes.[4][6][7]”
A black and white illustration of several large temnospondyl amphibians of late Carboniferous or Permian extraction, huddled together with some laying atop one another, captions "WELCOME MUDHOLE" From Walt Disney True Life Adventures - Animal Ghosts (1971)
A set of five cloth bound volumes with blue bands on the spine and silver lettering, labeled with section and Dewey Decimal stickers from its time in the Gardendale Public Library reference section.
A fairy circle of medium sized white mushrooms in parking lot turf, its circumference interrupted on the left side by a concrete curb. The scene is illuminated by blue toned LED street lights.
A hammer labeled “Anvil™️”
A page in a note book, a child’s hand having written the following: “Adults mite haf to do a lot of werck But win Kids grow up thay mite haf to Do a lot of werck to”
In the foreground, a plastic and metal armored figure hunches forward behind a phantasmal green shield while wielded a crackling electrical sword. Before him from out of a stone arch which describes a portal to a fantasy land of gigantic castles charges a warrior woman upon a white destrier, cape billowing behind her horned helment and waterfall of red hair. She brandishes a gleaming longsword.
An eight year old girl, her face redacted, proudly holds up her white belt and certificate of completion for her week of introductory karate
Codex: Angels of Death, featuring in the foreground a chaplain of the Blood Angels space marine chapter in black power armor, adorned in golden glowering skull mask, skull kneepads, skull girdle buckle, and wielding a skull-festooned mace while in the other hand he aims a gun straight at the viewer’s face
A photograph of the City of Alabaster Municipal Complex, which flies three flags for the USA, Alabama, and the city.
Illustration of a devilish gorgonopsian therapsid pounding on its prey, a supine dicynodont with its eyes closed and head thrown back as if the throes of erotic ecstasy. The gorgonopsian's fanged mouth approaches the neck of the dicynodont in an almost Draculan fashion, and the creatures' limbs are entwined in a manner which suggests frantic intimacy.
A university coat of arms. At bottom a scroll reads "GUDGER." Above it, Kirk Van Houten's drawing of Dignity from the Simpsons episode "A Milhouse Divded" containing three open books bearing the letters "DIG NI TAS" in the manner of Harvard's coat of arms reading "VE RI TAS"
Photo a five to six inch long centipede on a pillow in a hotel room captioned with “got stung by a centipede IN MY BED at the Guest House at 2:30 AM”
A brick storefront in a strip mall surmounted by a large sign reading Lettuce Souprise You, wherein the "tt" in lettuce is rendered as two carrots.
The starship Enterprise in orbit around an earth-like planet. The episode title text reads “The beast that shouted love at the heart of the world”
A beige colored plastic satchet labeled “Grandaddy’s Secret Authentic Western BBQ Rub”